In Havana, Telling It Like It Is

In an article recently published in the Madrid-based magazine Encuentro, Cancio analyzes the failure of efforts to reform the press from within, fruitless attempts by himself and his colleagues to loosen the government's totalitarian control over information. The forecast for freedom of expression in Cuba is bleak, he admits. But he sees hope in the burgeoning groups of independent journalists: "It's an important movement, regardless of the limitations of some of the members, because it's providing an alternative that goes beyond the limits of the state media."

-- Elise Ackerman